St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-13
Red Wing Chosen as the New Home of
the State Reform School After
Eight Ballots.
Tl> Supreme Court Says the Single
Mems Endowment Association
Has No Right to Exist.
Premiums fer the Next State Fair
Officially Published Men Who
VIII Conduct the Fair.
RED WING GETS 1T.
The New Site For the Reform
School Selected at Last.

The New site For the Reform
School Selected at Last.
1t was hot in room Is at the Merchants
yesterday afternoon. The steam wasn't
turned on. but several citizens from diff
ferent parts of the state were, and they
N.ere making it exceedingly warm for
the members of the reform school COM
mission, who were disposed around the
room i'll airy costumes, listening atten-
lively to the recital of advantages pos
SeSSed by the towns represented as sites
for the location of the reform school.
Mr.. Knox, of Aitkin, wasn't there, and
consequently he escaped the current of
natural gas that flowed throu.>s the
room and the ears of the other commits
SiOnerS.
President Murray presided with his
characteristic dignity. and in the excite
mcnt of the hour miStook the front of
one of Col. Aliens double base burners
for cuSpidor.
Shak0pee, Pennington, Hastings. Red
Wing and Buffalo Lake We're the towns
represented, and each one had Il half
dozen able-hodied men to sing her
praises. and they did it i'll high tenor
voices.
j. 7. NorriSh was the rabid fighter for
Hastings. and he fought well. In the
course or his remarks he said:
Our town has four griSt mills, which
are run by one of the finest water pow
erS to be found in the state"
How long do they run?' inquired
President Murray.
The year 'round,' answered Mr..
NOrriSh.
vt this point Dave Gibbons, of En-
pire, jumped up and said:
81 .l.,f Il, 81
griSt in July and couldn't get it ground.
mOre'n three months in year"
Mr.. NOrriSh'S face grew trifie red
and he
SANK INTO HIS CHAIR
at the same time that Dave got down,
and the commissioners laughed loudly.
{. p. Carpenter was Farmington's
champion he quoted poetry and de-
claimed nObly in behalf of that pretty
little town that has never been recog-
niZed in the distribution of favorS by
the state. Said he:
There is not spot on Gods earth
where the soil is SO rich and where ma
ture has so thickly strewn her blessings
as on Pennington.
This assertion stirred the blood in the
veins of Z. c. Stringer of Hastings, who
took the floor and insisted that Hast
ingS had soil naturally us rich as that in
any portion of the state and that it was
made d0ubly fertile by the richness that
was washed down to it from Farming
ton.
Red Wing had a man in Mr.. Carlson,
proprietor of the stone quarrieS there,
who didn't forget to lay particular stress
on the fact that the whole town of Red
Wing was founded on Il bed of granite
h.at l.t II.il al n oft
Paul. and he intimated that reform
school building. constructed of that
stone would be an honor and an Orna-
ment to the state.
At about 1 O'Clock, the pleadings were
all in and the commission adjourned to
the rotunda to await for Mr.. Knox who
was expected in on the evening train,
when a vote would be taken. 49,
EIGHT BALLOTS WE'RE TAKEN
by the commissioners, six of which were
informal. before choice was made and
finally Red Wing was selected. Gov.
Hubbard, Judge e. II. Wilder and O. NJ.
nearest competitor, Pennington, was
championed by DR.. Dodge. One of the
formal ballots showed tie vote, four
apiece, for Red Wing and Pennington.
and Hastings secured one. At
the next effort, however, Red Wing
secured five votes, and then the
question of site presented itself.
Three good offers were made-the Low
ther farm. $50 acres. about one and IA
quarter miles from the city: the Spates
farm, comprising $50 acres, about three
and a half miles from Red Wing, and
the Sargent farm, PAT acres, fraction
over two miles from the city limits.
After considerable discussion the COM
miSSi0nerS decided to visit these proper
ties to-day, and will leave st. Paul
early this morning for that purpose.
According to the bill passed by the
legislature providing for the change of
the institution, the price to be paid per
acre may be between $50 and $40 but
must not exceed the latter amount.
Besides Red Wing and Pennington
there We're advocates for Hastings and
Shakopee but proposition from Buffalo
Lake came too late to he considered.
During the ballotting Hastings never
secured more than one vote and the
other two were notrecorded in any way